The Menace of Multiculturalism: Trojan Horse in America

Minority rights and public autonomy: A nonculturalist argument for accommodating ethno‐cultural diversity

“…Such culturalism has been widely criticized for being blind to the fact that protectionist minority rights may lead to the reification and ghettoization of cultural communities (Barry, 2001;Schmidt, 1997). Some have emphasized that this was especially dangerous for the basic rights of ethnic women, given that the minority cultures that were supposed to be protected through groupspecific rights were more often than not patriarchal and heterosexist (Okin, 1999;Shachar, 2001;Yuval-Davis, 1997).…”